SKIM & Air France-KLM at ESOMAR Congress 2025

Join our presentation: 'From rigor to relevance'

SKIM & Air France-KLM at ESOMAR Congress 2025

How behavioral research empowered decision-making at Air France-KLM

Learn how Air France-KLM revolutionized their approach to customer research by recreating the real-life flight booking experience through innovative conjoint methodology that captures decision-making as it unfolds—moment by moment, choice by choice.

Exclusive presentation: From rigor to relevance – How applying the rigor of behavioral empowered decision-making at Air France-KLM

In this session, Cara and Inès will demonstrate how they moved beyond traditional research to capture customer behavior realistically throughout the complex, multi-stage flight booking journey. By combining three different conjoint techniques, they created a methodology that reflects authentic decision-making contexts at each critical stage of the purchase process.

Led by: Cara Wee, Associate Director, SKIM; Inès Clavé, Air France-KLM

Date: 28 September – 1 October at 02 Universum in Prague

What you’ll learn:

  • How to overcome the fundamental challenge of understanding what customers truly value along their digital purchase journey

  • Why relying on trade-offs made in-context reveals authentic customer preferences versus stated intentions

  • The power of recreating online booking journeys to capture decision-making as it naturally unfolds

  • How to balance realism, rigor, and respondent fatigue when designing complex behavioral research

  • Flexibility of the conjoint methodology, how it can be customized for different industry dynamics and business goals

About the presenters:

Cara Wee

Cara Wee

Associate Director, SKIM

Inès Clave

Inès Clave

Strategic Insights Analyst, Air France – KLM, Netherlands